MTBoS Mission #6 Organising

I've been frustrated for a while about finding ways to organise the stuff I find on the net. So far I'm still bookmarking and tagging. I've tried a few different things and looked into a few other things, but they all annoy me in being almost what I want, but not quite. I'm so picky about programs that I use, that I really should just become a programmer myself and make the program that *I* want. If the program isn't perfect, I get thoroughly annoyed with it every time I use it. I simply have no tolerance for bad programming. I think that comes from being the daughter of a programmer.

After trying Zotero, Pearltrees, Diigo, Onenote or Evernote, and a few others I have forgotten, I've gotten annoyed at every one of them. So, I've ended up mainly using tagged and foldered bookmarking (basically what Pearltrees does anyway, just not as pretty) and a Word document. Very old school I know.

The main reason I like simply using Word for at least part of my organising effort is because I prefer to summarise what I've learnt from some resource and then use footnote referencing to reference what I've just written. I could sort of do that using Zotero, but it had an annoying way of saving files and a bizarre way of naming the files. I'm also rather skeptical about what programs I use for important stuff, because, like google reader, sometimes they just up and vanish. Or like 'The Old Reader' the creators up and tell you that they've decided that you must now pay for the service or bugger off.

One thing I will try, once I'm actually teaching, is a virtual filing cabinet on this blog. There isn't much point in collecting lesson ideas for subjects I won't be teaching. For all the broader ideas, I use the Word document. For any files that I'd like to save, they go into the Skydrive in my folders within folders within folders system.

I've resorted to digg reader (with no real enthusiasm) since the old reader decided to tell all its users that they would have to pay to use (and then took it back?). I lost all respect for them with that one move. If you give something to the public for free, don't turn around and start threatening to cut services and expect people to be loyal followers and talk up your program. Not impressed.